Hello Chris!

Sunday October 06 1996 18:46, Chris MacKenzie wrote to Hamish Moffatt:

 HM>> Never heard of them, but I have seen "NE2000 clones" in PCI ..
 > Can't be much of clone..that'd be like an IBM clone that runs on a 68040 !
 > *8-)

 > NE2000's in a PCI flavour would be a waste of time. NE2000's are good cards
 > but a tad on the slow side.

In my environment, they're as fast as any other card in their price range,
and pretty damn close to theoretical speed limits. With a decent 486-100
system or so an NE2000 can get a benchmark (using the IPX mode of FastLynx)
of 67MB/min, which is > 1MB/s, which is pretty good (since Ethernet is
10mbit/s).

I have an SMC 8013 here, 16 bit ethernet card. The Linux Ethernet-HOWTO
recommends the SMC 8013 if you're after a fast, simple ethernet card for
ISA. My tests show that this card is as fast as the NE2000 in the same
machine. My only reasons for buying a PCI one are that's PCI is the future,
to free an ISA slot, and for novelty value.


Regards,
Hamish

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